F-14 Tomcat Agressor Maly Modelarz FINISHED!

This is a thread to show a quick review of the Mały Modelarz F-14 Tomcat Agressor.

I started the construction report back in November 2014, but I was using photos linked
from a non-standardized photo album, and they were all lost.

Instead of trying to re-edit the old thread, I'm going to open this one, with a review of the kit,
construction notes and photos.

Note #1 - One thing that I noticed is that, when I was doing my research for this paper model,
there was no finished threads in the forums around the net; all of them left them half constructed.
I found though 2 or 3 threads in the Polish forums with the finished model, but no review or construction report.

So I had to use all of these references and create this one stop report for this awesome kit.

Note #2 - I wrote the same text in my local club's newsletter a few months ago,
so I'm reproducing it here. You can download the Alamo Squadron newsletter here:
Newsletters

I really hope my notes and photos can help.

LET'S START
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Building report of a Paper Model
or
The Uncanny Side of Scale Models

by Gerardo Escobedo Sainz

There are certain universal and timeless questions in life like...
What is Paper Modeling? How can you build a 3D model out of 2D diagrams?
Where can I find more information about using paper as media to create scale models?
I hope to shed some light to these ageless questions.

Paper models are my life... at least for the last 12 years, and it has been a happy trip.
Let me tell you about one model in particular: The F-14 Tomcat.



Although I had the F-14 Tomcat Aggressor paper model kit in my stach
for several months, I was not brave enough to make use of my hobby
knife in its pages. But then my wife gave me the looks for which
she is known – You Can Do It -, and so I took a very deep breath and began cutting paper.
The kit’s cover showed a very appealing version of the Tomcat. Tough and complex,
building it was going to satisfy me... I knew it... and I believed it.
For me, every model is an epiphany of life.

Paper models come in many scales, from many countries – especially Poland -,
and the range of models in paper is endless. You can find the common themes
like aircraft and armor, to the wacky things like... your own head in paper,
scale 1:1 of course. In a nutshell, paper modeling is the art of converting
2D surfaces into 3D objects using paper as a media.